Breakdown

From the Irish Tatler''s Woman of the Year for Literature and one of the AN Post Irish Book Awards''s Best New Irish Writers comes a novel about one woman''s decision to leave everything behind . . .

''Thrillingly relatable''
Harper''s Bazaar

''This funny, thoughtful novel will resonate with lots of women''
Good Housekeeping

''You won''t be able to put this down. A fascinating study of a woman who has sacrificed her dreams''
The Gloss

''A masterful account of one woman''s dramatic rebellion against society''s demands''
Daily Express

''A vivid portrait of a woman adrift''
Observer

Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips . . .

But one winter morning in Dublin, an ordinary woman wakes up in her ordinary home, her husband next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby. And - without thinking much about it - walks out the front door and never comes back.

So begins a journey which will take her into service stations and shopping centres, hotel bars and hairdressers - and the beds of strange men.

Until finally, forty-eight hours later, alone in a cottage in Wales, the woman faces up to what she has been ignoring inside herself, her family, modern society: signs of breakdown.